Law & Order

Detectives and prosecutors work to solve crimes and convict perpetrators.

Law & Order

Parental Guide

Dead bodies + courtroom drama = mature teens only.

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Parents need to know that the Law & Order franchise isn't designed for kids. The first half of each hour-long episode focuses on a violent crime, and the second half centers on the ensuing courtroom drama -- which may bore more action-oriented viewers.

Season 20 Episode 15:

Brilliant Disguise

Season 20 Episode 14:

Boy on Fire

The investigation of a 16-year-old student whose body was burned causes Lupo and Bernard to question the young person he mentored, the last person to see him alive; the investigation draws attention to a vicious high-school rivalry.

Season 20 Episode 13:

Steel-Eyed Death

Season 20 Episode 12:

Blackmail

When a journalist is found dead in an abandoned apartment, the investigation uncovers a relationship between the victim and a daytime talk-show host, who admits to a series of workplace affairs and a blackmail threat.

Season 20 Episode 9:

For the Defense

Season 20 Episode 8:

Doped

A suspicious nasal spray is found at the site of a deadly car crash; after the medical examiner realizes the spray could easily disorient its user, the detectives become suspicious of the victim's boss.

Season 20 Episode 7:

Boy Gone Astray

When a wealthy young woman is found dead in her apartment, a few signs lead detectives to believe the killer was not after her wealth; a security video exposes two potential suspects, leading the detectives to a drug cartel.

Season 18 Episode 17:

Personae Non Grata

Season 18 Episode 16:

Strike

When a legal aid striker is killed outside the courthouse, the sand in his wounds leads detectives to investigate a greensman; due to the strike and shortage of defense attorneys, Rubirosa and Cutter must face each other in court.

Season 18 Episode 15:

Bogeyman

Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Benard have reason to believe a cult is involved when a novelist is found dead in her car; Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter has trouble prosecuting when several jury members fear for their own safety.

Season 18 Episode 11:

Betrayal

Season 18 Episode 10:

Tango

When a high-school girl is found dead, information leads detectives to a drug-addicted prostitute with an affluent past; when the case goes to trial, Connie Rubirosa seems to have an unrelenting admirer in the jury pool.

Season 18 Episode 7:

Quit Claim

Season 18 Episode 6:

Political Animal

When three roommates are found dead in their apartment, the initial investigation suggests a murder-suicide, but the relationship of one of the victims with a prominent figure shifts the focus to a political fundraiser.

Season 18 Episode 5:

Driven

When a teenage boy and a young girl are found dead near a neighborhood playground, Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Ed Green have trouble getting witnesses to talk after they realize the boy was targeted and the girl was killed accidentally.

Season 16 Episode 10:

Acid

Season 16 Episode 9:

Criminal Law

When detectives investigate a series of seemingly random murders, they find a hit list that includes ADA Jack McCoy, who realizes the people on the list are jurors from trial of a multiple murderer he prosecuted years ago.

Season 16 Episode 7:

House of Cards

Season 16 Episode 6:

Birthright

A nurse practitioner with a social agenda faces charges when an abusive young mother accused of murder suddenly dies in her jail cell, and detectives learn she may have been sterilized, without knowing it.

Season 16 Episode 3:

Ghosts

Season 16 Episode 2:

Flaw

Fontana and Green seek the aid of Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) when they discover a money-laundering scheme involving a mother-daughter team (Lynda Carter, Estella Warren) Benson had dealt with in a past case.

Season 16 Episode 1:

Red Ball

Season 15 Episode 24:

Locomotion

After a commuter train strikes an SUV parked on the tracks, leaving 11 dead, Fontana and Falco sift through the wreckage in search of clues until they find a depressed construction worker who claims he meant to commit suicide, not homicide.

Season 15 Episode 14:

Fluency

Season 15 Episode 13:

Ain't No Love

Evidence in the shooting death of a rap legend seems to point to his young protege (Sean Nelson), who has been cutting his own music on bootleg CDs, so Fontana and Green listen for clues in the lyrics.

Season 15 Episode 11:

Fixed

Season 15 Episode 10:

Enemy

After a bloody massacre of heroin dealers, Fontana and Green pinpoint a drug-dealing Afghan warlord as their primary suspect, and McCoy and Southerlyn prosecute despite pressure from the State Department.

Gov Love

Season 15 Episode 6:

Cut

McCoy must determine whether charges should be filed in civil court or in criminal court when a novelist's death seems to have been caused by careless liposuction, but Branch finds a recurring pattern of negligence by the doctor.

Season 15 Episode 5:

Gunplay

An illegal firearms sting backfires when two officers are slain, and Green poses as a gun buyer to try to capture the killers, who were able to identify the officers via a Web site identifying undercover cops.

Season 15 Episode 4:

Coming Down Hard

Detectives investigate the deaths of two college students and find both were participating in a pharmaceutical company's secret testing program for an antidepressant that has resulted in many suicides.

Season 13 Episode 14:

Star Crossed

Season 13 Episode 13:

Absentia

Two seemingly unrelated murders, stolen jewels and a case of mistaken identity lead to a defendant being tried for a crime without being present at the trial. Mandy Patinkin and Andrew McCarthy guest star.

Season 13 Episode 5:

The Ring

Season 13 Episode 4:

Tragedy on Rye

Detectives hope vacation video shot by a couple will help lead them to the murderer of an actress found shot to death in her apartment, but matters get complicated when the tourists decide to make a quick buck by selling the tape to a TV station.

Season 12 Episode 23:

Oxymoron

Season 12 Episode 22:

Attorney Client

When murder strikes the family of a defense attorney, the detectives compile a list of suspects that includes a disgruntled client (Lord Jamar) and a former lover (Annie Parisse) with a dangerous ex-boyfriend.

Season 11 Episode 22:

School Daze

Season 11 Episode 21:

Brother's Keeper

Briscoe and Green (Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin) discover a murdered businessman may have been the target of a well-known criminal (guest star Michael O'Keefe), but the investigation stumbles when the FBI acts as the suspect's alibi.